Rinse John's TechBlog: CISCO Linux-based blade servers

Most Ingenious Bedside Clock Ever

Posted by Rinse John On October - 01- 2008

There are two things I don't like when I wake up in the morning— having looking across the room at the alarm clock on my desk, and sitting up to make sense of it. This timepiece acknowledges both issues.

Review for Samsung S5233

Posted by Rinse John On October - 01- 2009

Samsung USA has achieved another milestone in devising the Super Class phone– succeed another bench mark by leveraging “the magic of touch”– a total makeover of fun and fantasy. This time it has, it has unveiled a unique touch technology that gives a magic feel, the power of touch screen which will change your world in to happiness and contentment.

Swiveling Touchscreen Viliv S7 S

Posted by Rinse John On October - 01- 2009

The Viliv S7, that hot little number we spec'd for you in January, is all but out and about today with one little caveat: Its not so little asking price is pegged between $630 to $800, depending on options.

CISCO Linux-based blade servers

Posted by Rinse On 6:04 PM

Cisco is set to shake up the blade server market again, bundling in with their Nexus 7000 Series data center switches. They already have Linux-based blades for their Catalyst 6500 Series switches, which is in competition with other provides of blades and networking ie IBM, HP, Dell and VMware. Though it would seem this sort of consolidation will make manageability easier with compatible software and easier support, it remains to be seen if this is the correct way forward. Let’s hope customers will change their mindset as this is sort of a new business model that may just make enterprise data center simpler.